Mansfield 66/67 is about the last two years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield’s life, and the rumors swirling around her untimely death. As entertaining as a documentary can get. Examining reasons why Jayne Mansfield has become such a cult icon. Starring John Waters (BUT Film Festival Main Guest 2008)!
This years’ Metal Movie is a documentary about metal’s most extreme performer ever (who makes GG Alllin look like a kindergartener). While living in complete isolation in the desert of southern California, a long forgotten shockrock musician refl ects on his dark past of drug abuse, violence, and self destruction.
A mockumentary about the real band ‘The Experimental Tropic Blues Band’ and their surrealistic adventures on the road. How do you survive as a band constantly on the verge of making it (a bit) bigger? The band has composed the entire soundtrack of the film.
An in-depth documentary about the mysterious German director Marian Dora (BUT guest 2010, and winner of the GROUNDREAKER award) and his masterpiece MELANCHOLIE DER ENGEL, steadily in the top lists of ‘most disturbing fi lms’. Who is this director, and what drives him (or her?) to make these extreme and sickening yet beautiful films?
The feature-length documentary “Forgotten Scares” goes back to the birth of Flemish horror in the 70s and shines a bright light on the future of horror in Belgium. A lot of interviews with the people involved, and some choice anecdotes about the likes of Rabid Grannies and Daughters of Darkness.